skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't build your career around existential risk
Finally the perfect use for the accursed touch bar!
That's a beautiful animation (and useful maths ;-).

In the spirit of minimalism, Merry Christmas to all HNers with this little but time-tested command:

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“Source available” is not Open Source. Some orgs reportedly have access to Windows source code, but that doesn’t mean they’re building and deploying their own version.
That'll be really nice, but I'm worried that DJI has a stranglehold on the camera market. Their stuff just works, gives you video over 20+ km without any tuning, and looks amazing. Open hardware has a long way to go to do that, but let's hope they pull off an ELRS.
Kaist Develops Foundational Technology to Revert Cancer Cells to Normal Cells
Dose Escalation Designs in Universal Context of Titration for Oncology
No, by reading the article we see that it is the opposite of what has been happening since 2010 that is being reported. There is a surplus of homes now, which is a complete reverse of the last ten year trend.

> According to Gerli, the explosion of inventory in certain markets of the country is "quite the rebound from the shortage experienced from 2012-22."
> Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?

Here’s to hoping LadyBird remains non crazy and can be relevant by the time of their planned alpha release in 2026.
Well, uv itself is just a binary wheel, with source distribution available of course. Uv uses basically no python, it's pure Rust and is still distributed using PyPI.
A Jewish friend of mine would get a small tree and call it his "Moses bush".
Ask HN: Why Microsoft uses Java for its official website?
I just always buy and never sell until the leadership and the board of the company appear to be going full retard. And not in a good way like Netflix pivoting to streaming in 2006 but like HP in 2006. Haha.
I remember my Hindu-Jewish Christmas. I was working at a startup in the midwest. We hired lots of graduated students, including one from Israel and one from Bangalore India. They were curious about Christmas so we invited them to come to ours!

Two young kids under 10, a new house in the country and perfect weather. They arrived, and since they had heard about the gift-giving part they brought gifts! For the family, way nicer than they had to for a hostess gift but exclamations all around and thanks and we use that giant red baking pot to this day.

The Indian lad was just married and she was so curious and funny and happy to be with family - they had found America to be so quiet and empty! To be in a full house again with kids and noise and decorations and ceremony - she was ecstatic.

We introduced all the foods (my wife was a champ and had come up with things everybody could eat! A Christmas miracle in itself) and the trappings (lights and trees and drinks and songs) and had a lovely loud silly evening.

Later, each of those co-worker mentioned independently that though they'd lived in America for years, that was the very first time they'd been invited into an American's home. They were so grateful. Even today, thirty years later, I can call either of those guys and be greeted like an old Uncle.

So yeah, I remember that one from time to time and smile.
I assume some people will approach this as stupidly as I did.

I wanted to see something and clicked on the 120Hz version not knowing what my laptop display actually is and while I am not photosensitive this was quite uncomfortable.
Thinking I don't understand what that is supposed to be I clicked on the 480Hz to see if that is better/different and that was even worse.
As a hail mary I clicked on the 240Hz and well that really made sense and was actually comfortable to look at.

So if you are like me and didn't really read through the text, this will only work for you if you select the Hz that matches your display ( which kinda is the whole point of why they are doing that ). If it looks bad you clicked the wrong link
Those are relative positions. We can't talk about a "nosedive" from that. It may be the case, but also maybe Ruby was just the slowest growing out of a number of languages growing in popularity. We don't have enough data from there.
Since Oracle bought Cerner a few years ago, no imagination needed. Sadly, since Cerner has lots of good people who want to make good products.
We're SWEs; the temptation to min/max ourselves is quite high. And it's not a bad impulse! I'm a Vim user; I've obviously invested a lot of time in editing efficiency (e.g. I'm great at looking up docs in the terminal). Oftentimes when I need to code I can't dilly dally. I also prefer a style of dumping out an implementation as quickly as possible to prove/disprove the idea, which of course requires a lot of editing efficiency.

But the way I've gotten here is by assiduously removing things that slowed me down. Sure popping docs in your editor is faster than switching to a browser, but just remembering is even faster. If your goal is really to not "waste the company's time" then you're putting the standard library, your dependencies, your app, etc. into Anki and memorizing. Since almost nobody (some people are and bless them) is doing this, I think we should admit we're fully in the realm of personal aesthetic preferences here.

And I take a broader view of the whole thing besides. I start from the perspective that engineers are whole people with histories, futures, goals, features, interests, and opinions. For example, Go wasn't built with autocomplete and go to definition. You're more or less arguing that Rob Pike should've been forced to setup VSCode. I think that's an express ticket to pissing off and burning out your engineers; just like I'd never micromanage Pike to that degree, I'd never micromanage you to the point where I'd force you to learn Acme.

The value we bring to our companies isn't just the speed with which we crank out code. The value our companies give to us isn't just a salary and benefits. We have more nuanced and complex human needs, and sacrificing those for extreme coding efficiency may provide short-term gains, but the long-term effect is pretty grim (ponder for a moment working at a company that actually cares about efficiency to the degree they'll micromanage your editing workflow).
nonblocking IO
Even better: that’s 10TB per organization.
This is very inaccurate. The receiver doesn't output PWM, it communicates with the FC over UART. Control and telemetry are one link, open source, with a range of more than 100km on commodity hardware. Ardupilot enables advanced autonomy out of the box, DJI uses LTE for more than 20km range of HD video out of the box.

Sure, you don't have sensor fusion from a bunch of disparate exotic sensors, and the control software could be improved a lot, but it's not as bad as you describe it.
It’s completely factual to say that newborns are being injected with aluminum & pharmaceutical companies are legally invulnerable to what happens as a result of that. But I’m sure this comment will be flagged regardless because this is a community of free thinkers.
People argue most fervently about things when you can't meaningfully measure the difference between the viewpoints. Because, of course, that argument can go on forever since no one can prove either way.
There's TruffleRuby (built on Graal) and JRuby if you want to explore that. They're not viable for everything, but they can be much faster.
I’m six years old: we’re travelling and our family is in London staying in a hotel. I watch Speed Racer on television on Christmas Eve, and they jump over a gap and something clicks and I “get” momentum. That night the anticipation is almost unbearable and I pretend to sleep as my parents set out presents. In the morning we get up and the best present I get is a junior science encyclopaedia. That day the weather is terrible, so we stay inside and read and we order chicken sandwiches from room service.
You wouldn't be able to get horizontal position.
Do you see something in the article that should require credentialing to state?
For a single RTX 4090 setup from you, it costs $6k.

A brand new single RTX 4090 costs $2500. The Intel chip is around $230. Let's say the RAM is another $200. Where does the rest of the money go? Is that just $3k profit for you?
You have an argument for formaldehyde, but “over your life more aluminum ends up in your stomach than you get injected into your bloodstream as a newborn” is pretty weak logic
Yup, this exactly. I don’t think engine failures are particularly common but I have had a few friends quoted roughly what their cars are worth to rebuild the engine from a new block or about 1/3 to replace the engine with a manufactured unit. Mostly Japanese and Korean cars.
I would expect some measurable improvement given how object-happy rails programming is. It's not uncommon to see 3 layers of models just wrapping a single variable - "objects that could've been functions". Some kind of tiers like generations or per-request pools would be amazing.
Mazda's Suitcase Car Was a Genius Answer to a Question Nobody Asked
>Spain and Italy are in the top 6 economies in Europe

This doesn't refute my point on poor WLB in Italy. China is the world's second economy and its WLB is pretty Terrible.

GDP!=WLB

>some of those prejudices are becoming unfounded

It's just what the people who emigrate out are saying. It's not prejudice.
Rents are in UF. I’ve never seen a mortgage in UF. Some savings accounts also pay “interest” in UF.
Embarrassingly, I spent even longer with Midjourney to come to the same conclusion.

It really isn't an issue with AI art but the limited, uncreative output of AI art models. I suspect many artists have been removed from earlier midjourney models too as well along with human input has softened the edges overall.

Then is just a matter of time that someone will comment on how you have to use stable diffusion and how much better stable diffusion is but that is because they mean "art" in the context of AI hentai.

Photoshop AI fill sounds like the greatest thing ever but the output is the same useless slop, not even as good as Midjourney. Only good for press releases and cherry picked best examples.

I don't like AI art in blogs because to me it is just signalling you haven't spent enough time with AI tools yet to understand these images look like shit. The other blog content then is framed in the same light.
I'm wondering if it would rather make more sense to emulate a CRT with a video projector and some shutter device (maybe a fan?) in front. Has anyone tried that yet?
It's good to hear you are supporting Haiku. Are you around on the Haiku forum or IRC?
Even the single precision given by the previous poster is seldom used for inference or training.

Because the previous poster had mentioned only single precision, where RTX 4090 is better, I had to complete the data with double precision, where RTX 4090 is worse, and memory bandwidth where RTX 4090 is the same, otherwise people may believe that progress in GPUs over 5 years has been much greater than it really is.

Moreover, memory bandwidth is very relevant for inference, much more relevant than FP32 throughput.
I've got a problem with that video that starts at 4:15. He seems to jump to the conclusion that for every midpoint there is only 1 distance. But that midpoint is formed by picking 2 points on the edge, and one could easily pick two other points on the edge that have the same midpoint (but have a different distance). He did not address that point at that point in the video, and for the next 2 minutes I kept raising that point in my mind. After he continued down that path not addressing that point, I felt that I must have missed something, or that more intelligent math viewers would have solved that open question in the mind in seconds and I am not mathematically inclined enough to be the target audience. And I stopped watching that video.

I think good educational videos are the result of a process where a trial audience raises such points and the video gets constantly refined, so that the end video is even good for people who question every point.
I don't think these PRs are a net negative for a project - I've never turned one down, anyway. I just don't understand what the contributor gets out of the arrangement, other than Github badges. Some theories I've held:

1) They want/intend to contribute more and are starting small, but either get overwhelmed, lose interest, don't have enough time, etc.

2) They are students padding their resumes (making small PRs so they can say they contributed to x-number of open source projects.)

3) Its just the Github badges.
It's easy to say this sitting in the west, especially since Egypt is run by an authoritarian government. I'll point out though that even sans-authoritarianism, there are plenty of examples of Western "investigators" arriving at politicized and often false conclusions with far worse consequences. The history of the CIA/FBI is chock-full of examples. And you don't even have to go that far back or dig that deep... The whole Iraq WMD debacle.

Anyway, not saying the Egyptian investigators were right in this case (it seems clear that they weren't). Or defending authoritarian governments. Just providing an alternative view point, as someone who lived half his life in Egypt and half in the US.
I love the "Merry Christmas" part, very seasonally appropriate. The clown stuff was pretty unexpected though.
They quote 12A in the name so I’d guess it includes the ESC.
This sounds so fun. I wonder if you take that description and feed it to a text2img model like flux, what would be the results.
What drama should I create in 2025? – u/photomatt
Powershell is more equivalent to Python than BASH TBH
If you're happy to trade the ecosystem and a bit of compilation speed for types, then Crystal is a perfectly cromulent choice.
Now you have people like Casey Muratori who are selling simplicity, because with higher simplicity you can use a higher percentage of your machine's theoretical performance. Only in contexts where that's something people want - specifically gamedev.
Wait until you hear about TruffleRuby
Ways to Scam the Modern American Programmer – Zed Shaw [video] (2012)
> In most dictatorships, the concern is usually "What does the country's leadership want the official story to be" rather than "What actually happened".

This also occasionally happens in non-dictatorships, unless you considered George W a dictator when he was deciding to invade Iraq.
Friends and people to have fun with are not the same thing.

The older you get, the less you trust people because you know what you and those you grew up with have become.

You got deep insights into decades of politics, dark patterns in engineering, and fraud and lies everywhere. All that is done by people, who are either like you or not. In any case, it's hard to trust any of them, especially if you have kids and you understand how all these people turned into what they are now. That's up to 13% of the population, I estimate, who, if you are more honest than corrupting (in the worse sense), can simply be dropped after one or two conversations and evenings. Move on as quickly as possible, don't let them occupy any space whatsoever in your mind.

Radical honesty, trusting your gut and acting on it when it comes to people and most other things goes a long way and saves you decades of time, brain power, nerves and rewards you with so much peace of mind. If it's not an honest match, fuck it. There's a million other people.

But that must not necessarily matter when it's about just having fun. Just a getting a few good licks out of an evening and being human works with anyone. It's in everyone's interest to let shitty people pay for their sexual gratification, though. Their 'bad boy' or 'bad girl'-vibes are just a facade, a charade, a bad act and any intimate time with them is worth much less than the average sex toy.
Thanks for sharing. This got me thinking, why is medium so used for such technical articles? Especially that lots of articles get blasted behind a paywall for me recently.
Being concise and pleasant to work with.

I wouldn't have had this much control of my own environment with another language, so that all of these are pure Ruby:

- My window manager
- My shell
- My terminal, including the font renderer.
- My editor
- My desktop manager

That's less than 10k lines of code. I've taken it a bit to the extreme, but I wouldn't have had the time to if I had to fight a more verbose language.
Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
It sounds like all your problems are solved with the built in "insert table"
Thanks, I didn't have a chance to watch the video, I just read the article. I'll have to take a look at it later.
Let me guess, you're the creator of chat-to.dev?
I found this refreshing after catching myself overthinking stuff lately. I want to reclaim the joy of coding in 2025.
Oh it's for a whoop, the cost threw me off. I guess it includes the controller and goggles, but still, a whoop should be around $50.
I thought, that most/all water is recycled into the drinking water tank after some processing.
No irony in this comment lol.
Feynman Lectures on Physics books. It might just be the right timing for me as I've only recently really started to grasp calculus and linear algebra, but a lot of things are clicking into place as I read.
It's actually really weird, if you think about it, that point 1 should involve the network. We should be able to just call a function in one language from a function in another language.

Actually this happened to me once. We had two components that needed to talk to each other - one with an Erlang server and C client library that communicated over a socket with a proprietary protocol - and the other in node.js. The first attempt was to write a C translator that took requests over another socket with a different proprietary protocol, but this one was proprietary to us so we could use it directly from node.js. The second, much better attempt was to learn node's C++ module interface and write a C++ node module wrapper around the C client library.

This third-party Erlang component benefited from being an independently restartable process and therefore needing some RPC, but we also had a mess of C/C++ components inter-connecting over RPC that in reality probably didn't need to be separate processes, but for some reason we'd already decided that architecture before we started writing them.
"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" by Daron Acemoglu
Show HN: News Voyager – Explore Tech News which are relevant for you
I find it challenging to stay up-to-date with the latest tech news, especially with the overwhelming amount of content out there. News feeds and social media algorithms often prioritize grabbing your attention rather than showing you what's actually relevant.

So, here's my early version of News Voyager—a text-only RSS feed explorer. You can customize the topics that interest you most, and your feed will display the latest articles from those topics.

I'm currently working on a feature that will let you define your own topics. Until then, let me know if there are specific news topics you're interested in or if I’ve missed any relevant news providers.

Happy Shipmas to all of you!
I guess the $10k service bill for just changing a water pump in an Audi won’t impress you. Mercifully for me this 40K Mile time bomb went off under warranty. In a sibling comment they’re talking about getting a deal on cylinder sleeves for $6,000. In 2005 I had a top end rebuild done for $1200. I am 100% not spouting BS, times have just changed.

Shop fees and hours are very expensive for repair. When basic repairs involve disassembling the entire front of the car they add up. This is why YouTube mechanics often just drop an engine subframe and get an alignment after.

Third party mechanics don’t get access to all the tools and software anymore. VAG decided to increase the pain by requiring a license fee to access alignment information from next year onward for Audi, Porsche, and other brands.

Normally for anything I won’t wrench myself I’m happy enough with Pepboys service but increasingly they have to turn me away because they lack the tooling, software, or expertise for a job, and we’re no where near talking about machining an engine.

Rebuilding that damaged engine needs a specialty shop. They’re not just spinning a bore hone on a drill anymore. Coupled with overall improved designs and there just isn’t the same market for the work that there used to be.
Ukridge by PG Wodehouse. I hadn't really ventured out the Blandings/Jeeves/Psmith collections that much. Ukridge may be the funniest book I've ever read. He's also featured in another book 'Love Among the Chickens' - absolutely hilarious.
>I mean, what happens to Eliezer Yudkowsky's -- the biggest advocate of stopping all AI research due to AI existential risk -- career if it turns out that AI risk is simply not an existential concern?

Either AGI arrives and kills us all, or it arrives and automates all our jobs, or it doesn't arrive and Yudowsky can keep doing his career. Am I missing something?
And Dark City was delayed after it was finished, it should have come out before The Matrix.
I copy here my previous HN comment from June 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36415981

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I watched Dark City years after watching The Matrix (on opening in the cinema) and I enjoyed it very much, have watched it multiple times over the years.

Here is Dark City’s director Alex Proyas: “Alex Proyas on: The Matrix copying Dark City” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxjsetVIRM

And this is a juxtaposition of some scenes with background music: “The Matrix vs. Dark City.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moW17YHl6B8

This is Mr. Hand [Richard O’Brien] talking in ”Memories of Shell Beach”:

> It was a very groovy movie, you see?

> I remember saying to Rufus Sewell [who played the protagonist], I said, you know, it actually, truthfully, it really doesn’t matter, does it, whether it’s a box-office success because we’re going to get paid as actors anyway, sorry Alex [Proyas] but this is true, we’re gonna get paid as actors anyway and isn’t it nice to be part of something which is groovy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrK4U6PEu94&t=1029s
he maps two points (by using their midpoint) and a distance to the (x,y,foo) if it was two different points with the same midpoint but different distance it would map to (x,y,bar)
> multiple official rates

One such case is customs agencies publishing their own exchange rates for use in custom declarations, for example here[1] for the US or here[2] for Sweden.

[1]: https://www.cbp.gov/trade/document/report/daily-foreign-curr...

[2]: https://tulltaxan.tullverket.se/arctictariff-public-web/#!/t...
I mean, as long as you don’t mind not being able to access the vast majority of published content, news and social media, that is.
Ha, but ads and whatnot are not a requirement for a website.

Plus, why wouldn’t llms be able to crawl websites as well?

Are llms going to improve the web or fragment it further as ads did?
You can say many things about Elon and I’d probably agree with lots of them, especially regarding the near past, but he did build at least two organizations which have changed or are actively and visibly changing the world for the better. Funding came because of his resilience and perseverance, not in spite of his other traits.

Or, to quote a classic, he was smart and got shit done, for about two decades.
Trend is not equivalent to usage.

The amount of pushes seem to be steady if you look at Ruby, https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pushes/2024/1

Just because something is not hyped up or talked about constantly doesn't mean it's dying.
Christmas 1996, I was 11. We finally got a modern computer with Windows 95, a CD-ROM drive, speakers, Oregon Trail 2... It was magical! The only time I ever wept with joy over a Christmas present.